"Nate can't concentrate on paddling," said Kevin Eckelkamp's mother, Terry Eckelkamp, who's also a member of the expedition's support team. "He's looking for flights home right now, to be with his family."

Eckelkamp and Millhone are still hoping to break the record on their own. They're one man down, and, paddling along the southern border of Wisconsin Wednesday afternoon, already slightly behind where they'd hoped to be by this point in the trip, but Terry Eckelkamp says the team doesn't plan on giving up.